Alaska Archive

In the bush you live by the seasons; hunting season, trapping season, building season. Freeze up, break up there is a season for everything. Freeze up is a fantastic time in the bush hunting is over trapping hasn’t started it is more laid back time. […]

Hunting season is finally over this was the longest one in several years. I spent most of August guiding float trips for brown bear on the Skwentna River then headed down to the Gulf of Alaska to Icy Bay to guide some more brown bear […]

I got a few days off between hunts so I thought I would post a few pictures from my 2009 hunting season. I’m headed back to Icy Bay this weekend for a couple more moose hunts then I’m done for the year. Here is Mark […]

The excitement was building, as we had been anticipating our trip to Alaska for a while. It was a major task just getting my husband to agree to the trip, since we didn’t want to step foot on a plane. I figured if I booked […]

I just found out I will be going to Alaska in July. I am looking forward to it, as we will be fishing for Silvers, and hope to do a bit of Halibut fishing as well. I am anxious to get up there and I […]

In my opinion hunting black bear over bait is way underrated it’s by far my favorite. I didn’t start out hunting them that way things just sort of evolved. In fact until I moved to where we live now I didn’t even hunt for black bears, […]

I thought I would use my first shot here in my PTO Field Journal to introduce myself and tell a little about life in the Alaskan bush. I live on a remote Alaska homestead with my wife and children. Our home is in southcentral Alaska […]